Archival collections on the history of the Great Patriotic War
Collection of documents on Partisan Movement in Belarus in World War II – NARB, fond 1191, 2 items, 1941-1944
Reports and dispatches of the police and military units referring to the Partisan movement in Belarus and referring to the Warsaw uprising of 1944.
Minsk Underground City Committee of CP(b)B (Communist Party of Belarus) and its underground organizations – NARB, fond 4386, 480 items, 1940-1990
Stenograms and proceedings of the CC CPB (Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus) Bureau’s meetings, of the CC CPB Commission on the Minsk underground organization, and other documents attached thereto. Proceedings of the meetings; resolutions and decisions of the Minsk Underground City Committee of CP(b)B and its underground organizations. Proceedings of the meeting held on April, 8-10 in Minsk for the regional commissars, department chiefs in the General Commissariat of Belarus, and police chiefs. Transcripts of interrogations of members of the Minsk underground organization. Resolutions of the Minsk CPB City Committee about recognition of underground organizations. Reports of the SD and Security Police about their struggle against Partisans. Reports of the Partisans about underground groups’ activities. Written evidence of the German security service agents; interviews with members of underground organizations. Data concerning the activities of the special Partisan and underground units (special group “Mstitel” (Avenger) in the People’s Commissariat of State Security of BSSR, etc.). Manuscript copies of the underground newspaper “Zvyazda” (Star), leaflets, certificates, and other documents of underground fighters in Minsk. Certificates of the Main Intelligence Service at the General Staff of the USSR Defence Ministry, of the BSSR State Security Committee, of the Prosecutor Officer in the Belarusian Military District, of the Institute of Party History in the CC CPB. Letters and applications of the citizens about activities of the Minsk underground organization. References, lists, personal cards and autobiographies of underground fighters and persons arrested by SD and Security Police. Register of the convicts held in the Minsk Prison. Documents concerning the inspection of the activities of underground organizations and individual underground members.
Collection of documents of underground fighters in Brest – State Archives of Brest Region, fond 7474-p, 48 items, 1941-1970
Lists and reminiscences of underground fighters.
Collection of documents concerning organization of the national struggle against German invaders in the territory of Vitebsk Region – State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 745, 82 items, 1942-1976
Reminiscences of members of the underground and Partisan organizations; preparatory materials and rough chapters for the book “Without front line” by Ya. Zhilenin, V. Luzik, and I. Pozdnyakov.
Collection of documents of the participants of the Great Patriotic War – NARB, fond 345, 54 items, 1941-1945
Hand-written reminiscences, biographical particulars and certificates, award documents of the front-line soldiers; letters from and to the front, newspaper articles.
Collection of letters of the front-line soldiers and soldiers being in the military service outside the Soviet Union – NARB, fond 345, 80 items, 1944-1945
Letters of the front-line soldiers to their relatives, friends, and newspaper editors (1944-1945).
Collection of letters of the writers and authors of war memoirs, collected by Ya. I. and Z. V. Draichuk – BGAMLI, fond 151, 206 items, 1960-1971
Letters of Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Kh. Bagramyan, Army General P. I. Batov, Army General A. P. Beloborodov, Chief Air Marshals A. K. Vershinin and A. A. Novikov, Marshals of the Soviet Union R. E. Voroshilov, G. K. Zhukov, and K. A. Meretskov; CC CPB Secretary, Chief of Belarusian Staff of Partisan Movement P. Z. Kalinin, Lieutenant-General N. N. Kozhedub, and more.
Collection of plans, diagrams and schemes of the Belarusian towns – BGANTD, fond 6, 2 items, 1943
Layout of Minsk environs; schemes of the concentration camps in the city of Minsk
Collection of V. I. Arkashev – BGAKFFD, no fond number, 524 items, 1941-1945
Photographs of the Soviet soldiers, battle scenes, episodes of army life, and work of medical battalion.
Collection of the documents from the Manuscript Department of the Belarusian Museum named after Ivan Lutskevich in the town of Vilno – BGAMLI, fond 3, 4 items, 1862-1943
Photographs of the employees of the Volozhin District Council.
Collection of leaflets, wall newspapers and slogans of the Party, Komsomol, anti-Fascist organizations, and Belarusian Partisans – NARB, fond 1499, 259 items, 1941-1944
Collection of the registration cards of Minsk residents who were registered at the local militia offices in 1944-1945 – NARB, fond 170, 82 items, 1942-1976
Collection of letters of the Soviet citizens deported to Germany – State Archives of Brest Region, fond 1125, 2 items, 1943; State Archives of Gomel Region, fond 2821, 1 item, 1943
Collection of the labour books and cards, and photographs of the persons who served in different establishments in Germany during Second World War – State Archives of Vitebsk Region, fond 1621, 733 items, 1942-1945
Collection of microfilms of the documents preserved at the archives of foreign countries and at the agency archives of the Republic of Belarus – NARB, no fond number, 369 items, 1939-1945
Resolutions of the State Defence Committee of the USSR; orders and instructions of the army military councils and the Polish Staff of Partisan Movement. Reports of the Central Staff of Partisan Movement about operational and organizational work; reports of the Partisan units about reconnaissance, diversion and combat activities, about work of the Central Training School for Partisan Personnel. Transcripts of interrogations of Nazi criminals; data on the collaboration public organizations and units, Polish Partisans, man strength of underground and Partisan organizations, relationship between Partisans and the Red Army troops. Documents of the Extraordinary State Commission about crimes of the SS troops (data, reports, certificates). Day-books of Partisan units. Reviews of the letters and documents of prisoners-of-war.
Stenograms of the meetings of the higher leadership of Germany. Minutes’ fragments of the meetings in the Staff of Fuhrer; minutes of the meetings in the headquarters of military units and in the higher bodies of the Occupation administration. Orders and instructions of the Reichsfuhrer SS, the Security Police and SD units, the Reichsministry of the Eastern Occupied Territories, the general commissars and gebietscommissars, the Wehrmacht commanders in the the Reichscommissariat Ostland and in General Okrug Belarus, and the army and abvergroup commanders. Reports of the higher police bodies in the territory of Belarus and Ukraine and of the general okrug commissars in Belarus and in the town of Zhitomir about the situation and economic, political and military activities in the Reich and in the Occupied Territories. Reports, dispatches and other data of the civil and military bodies and formations about the structure and activities of the Occupation administration bodies; about operations of einzatsgroups, GFP units, SS units, collaboration organizations, Ukrainian and Belarusian Partisans, underground fighters and saboteurs; about the formation of the defence villages and the punitive operations “German”, “Dirlivanger”, “Bolotnaya likhoradka”, “Kottbus”, “Prazdnik urozhaya”, “Yakob”, and more; about Resistance movement in the occupied Europe and the Soviet Union, SS troops personnel, camps for prisoners-of-war and civilian citizens, Jewish policy, air raids, and defence of industrial enterprises. Data of the higher bodies of Germany and the Occupied Territories concerning the economic and military situation in Germany and in the Occupied Territories; negotiations between A. Hitler and B. Mussolini (1940); quartering of military formations; allocation and usage of foreign labor force; work of industrial and agricultural enterprises in Germany and in the Occupied Territories; export of cultural values to Germany; mining operations in the occupied countries; supplies and price formation; religious, national, agrarian, finance and law policies; educational, cultural and propagandistic work; repression against population in the occupied countries; situation at the Soviet-German front; evacuation from the Occupied Territories. Reports of the commander of the rear region of the “Center” army group. Official correspondence of Abwehr, German embassies and consulates in Hungary, Italy, Rumania and other countries. Operational reports of Gestapo. Texts of speeches of the higher leaders of Germany. Radiograms. Maps, plans and schemes of the Partisan movement in Belarus and in the rear region of the “Center” army group, of the anti-Partisan operations of German troops, plans of Belarusian towns. Limited publications (books of instructions and reports, information bulletins of German organizations and establishments). Documents of the Nurnberg legal process over the Nazi criminals (fragments from the minutes; records; texts of witnesses, and more). Fragments from the books of the German authors about activities of the occupying forces in the territory of the Soviet Union.
Abbreviations:
NARB – National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
BGAMLI – Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art
BGANTD – Belarusian State Archives of Scientific and Technical Documentation
BGAKFFD – Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs, and Sound Recordings